@henrypenton/autokoa NPM

AutoKoa

A simple site server with EJS support

Installing

Install autokoa:

npm install --save @henrypenton/autokoa

Setting up a simple HTML server

Create an index.js file and copy in the following:

const auto = require("@henrypenton/autokoa");
const app = auto(__dirname);

app.listen(3000);

Replacing 3000 with whatever port number you'd like to listen on.

Make two folders named views and public in your root directory, next to index.js.

Place any HTML files inside views and any images, scripts or stylesheets inside public.

index.html will be displayed on accessing localhost:3000

Any subsequent pages such as testpage.html will be available under its name minus its identifier i.e. /testpage. If an attempt to access page that doesn't exist is made, the default reaction is to display a file named 404.html - so make sure you create this, even if its empty!

Using a run file

Want to use EJS to do some behind the scenes magic?

Add a file in your root directory called run.js and give it the following structure:

let pageData = "";

run = async (name, ctx) => {
  switch (name) {
    case 'index':
      pageData = {
        title: 'index'
      }
      break;
    case '/examplepage':
      pageData = {
        title: somethingIGenerated
      }
      break;
  }


  return new Promise(resolve => {
    resolve(pageData);
  });
}

module.exports = run;

Inside here you could fetch any data you like and feed it back to the page.

I used the page title on my homepage with: